“I think that you’re misinterpreting those commercials,” Angle said. “I’m not sure that those are Latinos in that commercial. What it is, is a fence and there are people coming across that fence…

…I don’t know that all of you are Latino. Some of you look a little more Asian to me. I don’t know that.”

When her comments were met with skepticism (listen here), Angle forged ahead, waxing inclusive about America as a “melting pot”:

“What we know, what we know about ourselves is that we are a melting pot in this country. My grandchildren are evidence of that. I’m evidence of that. I’ve been called the first Asian legislator in our Nevada State Assembly.”

Which sounded a lot like she was claiming to be Asian. Or Latino. Or…well, hell, who can tell the difference?

“Sharron is making the point that this country is a melting pot and you cannot judge people based on stereotypes or the way they look. When she was in the legislature, a reporter mistakenly referred to Sharron as being of Asian descent.”

Because judging someone by the way they look, especially when it comes to something like illegal immigration, that’s racial profiling, right?

But sometimes–and you won’t hear us say this often–stereotypes do come in handy. Like, if that reporter who mistook Angle for Asian had, in fact, judged her based on stereotype, s/he would have known that Angle–who doesn’t believe in global warming, doesn’t believe the Constitution mandates the separation of church and state, and who recently claimed that Sharia law had taken over parts of the U.S.–is really just too much of a dumbfuck to be one of us.